On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Brian A. Seklecki<laval...@spiritual-machines.org> wrote: >> > >> >> One more question. How do I know to which NIC the IPMI is binded. I >> have 2 NICS in my Dell machine. >> > > > Its on the first NIC. > > But some fucking idiot at Dell or AMI/Phoenix made a brilliant idea of > giving add-on cards a lower PCI ID, so they probe first by 99% of the > POSIX kernels, which assign them (addon cards) a lower index so they show > up as eth0 or em0. > > So for me, 'em2' is my first onboard in the following example. Makes > sense right? > > Anyway, in FreeBSD 7.2/amd64, the em(4) drive apparently doesn't let the > kernel see ARP reply (is-at) messages on my em2 interface of the virtual > NIC on the same physical port with a different MAC address: >
So I assume my eth0 is my first NIC where IPMI is associated to. > > > $ sudo tcpdump -n -i em2 | grep -i arp > listening on em2, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 68 bytes > > > $ ifconfig em2|grep -i ether > ether 00:13:72:4f:70:80 > > $ ping web04-ipmi > PING web04-ipmi (192.168.97.201): 56 data bytes > 21:59:06.959556 arp who-has 192.168.97.201 tell 192.168.97.133 > 21:59:07.961520 arp who-has 192.168.97.201 tell 192.168.97.133 > 21:59:08.963837 arp who-has 192.168.97.201 tell 192.168.97.133 > ping: sendto: Host is down > ping: sendto: Host is down > > But if I ping another host in that cluster: > > web04$ ping web03-ipmi > PING web03-ipmi (192.168.97.199): 56 data bytes > 22:00:14.655563 arp who-has 192.168.97.199 tell 192.168.97.133 > 22:00:14.672729 arp reply 192.168.97.199 is-at 00:13:72:4f:71:0d > > $ ping web03 > PING web03-v100 (192.168.97.132): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 192.168.97.132: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.710 ms > 22:05:49.772374 arp who-has 192.168.97.132 tell 192.168.97.133 > 22:05:49.772669 arp reply 192.168.97.132 is-at 00:13:72:4f:71:0b > > Both IPs on the same physical NIC port, different MACs. > > Anyway, ditch your 8th gen gear and get yourself a 9th gen PowerEdge. > > The guy who made good decisions about PCI IDs on the 8th gen must have > been involved in developing the DRAC5 LOM card. It runs GNU/Linux > microkernel, and serves up an ActiveX applet for remote console/media that > can only work in Internet Explorer >:} > This dell 1850 has also DRAC (ver 4) which is almost useless. Can't do anything expcet monitor the console which is not enough for me. I was trying to enable telnet/ssh for the DRAC IP interface (for cluster fencing) but hell it did't work with the Linux systems managment tool. IPMI is an another alternative for me but I do not know what is wrong with these dell server or what I have done wrong. Anyways thanks for your replies. And yes I still need to make this IPMI thing work ;) Paras. > ~BAS > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
